Euphaedra harpalyce

Euphaedra harpalyce
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euphaedra
Species:	E. harpalyce
Binomial name
	Euphaedra harpalyce; (Cramer, 1777)
Synonyms
	Papilio harpalyce Cramer, 1777; Euphaedra (Euphaedrana) harpalyce; Romaleosoma lakuma Butler, 1870; Euphaedra harpalyce var. fasciata Staudinger, 1886; Romaleosoma spatiosa Mabille, 1876; Euphaedra losinga ab. impunctata Bartel, 1905; Euphaedra spatiosa ab. saphirina Neustetter, 1927; Euphaedra spatiosa ab. bipunctata Dufrane, 1933;

Euphaedra harpalyce, the Common Blue-banded Forester, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Gabon, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia.^[2] The habitat consists of lowland forests, riparian forests and secondary forests.

Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit.

Subspecies

Euphaedra harpalyce harpalyce (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
Euphaedra harpalyce dowsetti Hecq, 1990 (Rwanda)
Euphaedra harpalyce evanescens Hecq, 1995 (Nigeria: Mambilla Plateau)
Euphaedra harpalyce serena Talbot, 1928 (Democratic Republic of Congo: Shaba, Zambia)
Euphaedra harpalyce spatiosa (Mabille, 1876) (Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
Euphaedra harpalyce sudanensis Talbot, 1929 (southern Sudan, northern Uganda)
Euphaedra harpalyce vana Hecq, 1991 (Bioko)